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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

Igor Stravinsky

Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Music Myself Pieces
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Force Love One Liner Strong
I am an inventor of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Invention Music Myself
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

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